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Some genetical and biochemical attempts to elucidate the energetics of sugar uptake and explain the Kluyver effect in the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis

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A mutant of Kluyveromyces lactis is described which did not grow with substrates giving the Kluyver effect. In addition it could not grow with non-fermentable carbon sources, although it was not respiratory deficient. Abolition of respiration by cyanide also caused inability to grow with substrates showing the Kluyver effect in the wild-type strain. When the yeasts were using substrates showing the Kluyver effect, shifting to anaerobic conditions gave an immediate decrease in the intracellular concentration of d-glucose 6-phosphate. The results obtained were consistent with the need of a common respiratory and/or anabolic pathway for the utilization of these substrates.

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  1. Physiologisch-chemisches Institut, Universität Tübingen, D-7400, Tübingen, Germany

    K. -D. Entiani

  2. School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, England

    J. A. Barnett

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Entiani, K.D., Barnett, J.A. Some genetical and biochemical attempts to elucidate the energetics of sugar uptake and explain the Kluyver effect in the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis . Curr Genet 7, 323–325 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00376078

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